Thursday, July 27, 2017

Have you ever been at Best Buy or GameStop and seen a clearance sale and wondered "Is that really a good deal?" or "Can I get that game cheaper somewhere else?" You can quickly scan the game and find the price on PriceCharting with any mobile device. Here's how to do it:

1. Download a Free UPC Scanner App
Download a UPC scanner app on your phone. Any one will do BUT it needs offers custom url searches. I recommend Barcode Scanner Pro for Android.

2. Edit Settings
Click the 'Settings' icon (little gear) and make two changes.

First, toggle on 'Open Webpages Automatically' option.

Second, edit the 'Custom Search Url' to look like this:

https://www.pricecharting.com/search-products?type=videogames&q=%s

3. Scan A UPC
Find any video game UPC and scan it.

Click 'Custom Search' button

4. Success!
You will be redirected to PriceCharting page for that game.

The same concept works for other UPC scanner apps and even UPC scanners for computers.

Scanner built for computers can be made to automatically fill in the form on PriceCharting so you never have to leave the site when scanning.

Got it to work on iOS with the "QR Reader" app. In the app went to Settings > Barcode Settings > Send barcode to web server. Then I input the link above as "https://www.pricecharting.com/search-products?type=videogames&q=[code]", dropping out the "%s" part.